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1.4. States, existed on the territory of modern Ukraine.

Different state educational institutions existed at different times
on the territory of Ukraine, the study of which gives an opportunity to

better understand the essence of modern state-building processes.
The first attempts of state-building on the territory of Ukraine
belong to the nomadic tribes of the Northern Black Sea Coast – the

Cimmerians, the Scythians and Sarmatians – and they are
chronologically related to the middle of the 1st millennium BC. The
Scythian state was especially known, which reached its peak in the IV
century BC. This is a classical despotic monarchy with the unlimited

power of the king, transmitted by right of succession.
In the VII century BC the Greek settlements appeared on the
territory of the Northern Black Sea Coast. The greatest development

was achieved by Olbia, Panty-Cape, Theodosius, Chersonese and
others. Each of these city-states was a small slave-owning state in the
form of a democratic or aristocratic republic. In most of them, the

people's assemblies were the supreme body of state power, which
elected the Council of the city. Law in its content was close to law of
Ancient Greece. In the V century city-states of the Kerch Gulf were

united into the Bosphorus Kingdom.
In the III century BC militant Germanic tribes of Goths came in
the Northern Black Sea Coast. In 375 they were displaced from the
Northern Black Sea region by the Huns. They formed a powerful

state, which collapsed in the middle of the sixth century.
The Slavic tribes in the territory of modern Ukraine were first
mentioned in the ancient times. Anty, Venedy and Sklaviny were the

most famous of them. The Union of Anty tribes was the most famous
of the Slavic pre-state political formations, formed in the second half
of the IV century. In the VII century the eastern Slavs have emerged
from the general mass of the Slavic tribes, which formed the stable

political formations in the form of tribal unions – poliany, drevliany,
duliby, etc. In the following centuries consolidation continued, which
led to the creation of the united Eastern Slavic state – Kyivan Rus. Its

origin is associated with Prince Oleg of Novgorod who captured Kyiv
in 892.
Kyivan Rus during the IX-XII centuries united all the eastern

Slavs. It is characterized as an early feudal state, the social structure of

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